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CONTACT INFORMATION

NAME:                     FIRLEJ  
First Name:             Lucyna
Professional status:            Professor of Chemical  Physics                                   


Address:                      Laboratoire de Colloïdes, Verres, Nanomatériaux (LCVN)

                                      Université Montpellier II, Pl. E. Bataillon,
                                      34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France

phone:           +(33).4.67.14.47.49 
fax:                  +(33).4.67.14.46.37
e-mail:  lucyna.firlej@univ-montp2.fr
 
EDUCATION

                 D.Sc. (Habilitation) - Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2001
                 Ph.D. - Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, 1986
                 M.Sc. - Department of Physics, A.Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 1982

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - overview
 
PERMANENT POSITIONS:

   Department of Physics, Universite Montpellier II, Montpellier, France  
       Since 1998 -                Professor
       1988-1998                   Associate Professor

    Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
       1986-1988                   Assistant Professor 
       1982-1986                   Graduate Research Assistant
 
VISITING (INVITED) POSITIONS:

      Department of Physics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
       2008-2009                   Visiting Professor (17 months)   


      University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA
        2007                            Visiting Professor (3 months)


      Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

       2000                             Visiting Professor (6 months)


      Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
       1999                            Visiting Professor (6 months)


      Groupe de Dynamique des Phases Condensées, (GDPC), Universite Montpellier II, Montpellier, France
        1988-1991                   Visiting Scientist (3 years)
 
EXPERTISE :

Computer simulations:    modeling of intermolecular interactions ;
                                               Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics and minimization techniques;
                                               modeling of adsorption in confined geometry: physisorbed 2D systems and nanoporous materials;
                                               thermodynamics et dynamics of molecular solids;
                                               computer simulations of static and dynamic properties of molecular solids;
                                               modeling of order-disorder phase transitions ;

Experimental physics:     electrical transport in low dimensional organic conductors ;
                                              NMR and EPR spectroscopy of organic conductors;
                                              electronic properties of fullerenes and derivatives;
                                              arc discharge and solar synthesis of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes ;
                                              deposition and intercalation of fullerene thin films .

 
TEACHING COURSES :

              General Physics, Conceptual Physics;
              Mathematical Analysis;
              Mathematical Methods of Physics;
              Metrology;
              Probability and Statistics;
              Numerical Simulation in Science: Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
 
LANGUAGES  (spoken and written): French, English, Russian, Polish (native)
                              basic understanding of German  and Spanish
 
NUMBER OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

           To date a total of 9 (nine) - 2 in Poland, 2 in US, 5 in France
           
NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS :  97 (revised November 2009)
 
NUMBER OF CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS : 118  (revised December 2009)
 
OTHER ACTIVITIES

       Co-organized 7 international conferences  (1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1997, 2006)
       Editor of special issues of Synthetic Metals: vol.35 (1990); vol.94 (1998); vol.109 (2000)
       Referee for: PRB, PRL, Synthetic Metals, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Molecular Physics Reports,
                              Acta Physica Polonica, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids